Homework:Read Fernando Ortiz´s "Tobacco and Sugar". This is very little reading. You may think about posting to your blog, or trying to make some headway with final projects... Wednesday, October 22 Class: Discuss Fernando Ortiz´s Tobacco and Sugar. Terminology: transculturation, hybridityHomework:
Thursday, October 23Class: Discuss Guillén. Homework:Read the following poems by Gabriela Mistral: "Decalogue of the Artist" (79), "The Flower of Air" (81-83), "One Word" (83-84), "A Woman" (84-85), "Final Tree" (84-86).
Gabriela Mistral
Friday, October 24 Class: Discuss Mistral´s poems.Homework:Read Alfonsina Storni´s "Lyrical Letter to the Other Woman" (107-110), "Sorrow" (110), and "I´m going to sleep" (111). Also, please read the packet of poems by Julia de Burgos that is posted on the conference.
Monday, October 27 Class: Discuss Storni´s and de Burgos's poems.Homework:
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Please read Miguel Ángel Asturias's "The Legend of El Cadejo". This text is on the conference. Wednesday, October 20 Class: Discuss "The Legend of El Cadejo". Homework: Please read Alejo Carpentier's "Prologue: The Kingdom of this World" and "Voyage to the Seed." Both of these texts are on the conference.
Homework:Read Fernando Ortiz´s "Tobacco and Sugar". This is very little reading. You may think about posting to your blog, or trying to make some headway with final projects...
Wednesday, October 22
Class:
Discuss Fernando Ortiz´s Tobacco and Sugar. Terminology: transculturation, hybridityHomework:
Optional: Read F. Ortíz's "On the Phases of Transculturation"
Optional: Some notes on Ortíz
Thursday, October 23 Class: Discuss Guillén.
Homework: Read the following poems by Gabriela Mistral: "Decalogue of the Artist" (79), "The Flower of Air" (81-83), "One Word" (83-84), "A Woman" (84-85), "Final Tree" (84-86).
Friday, October 24
Class:
Discuss Mistral´s poems. Homework: Read Alfonsina Storni´s "Lyrical Letter to the Other Woman" (107-110), "Sorrow" (110), and "I´m going to sleep" (111). Also, please read the packet of poems by Julia de Burgos that is posted on the conference.
Monday, October 27
Class:
Discuss Storni´s and de Burgos's poems.Homework:
Wednesday, October 20
Class: Discuss "The Legend of El Cadejo".
Homework:
Please read Alejo Carpentier's "Prologue: The Kingdom of this World" and "Voyage to the Seed." Both of these texts are on the conference.